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MEGA WAGES AWAIT MESSI AT MAN CITY

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It is becoming increasingly clear that Lionel Messi is Manchester City-bound. According to The Sun of UK, Manchester City are ready to offer the star player an incredible £450million over five years.

As per Sports Village Square reports on Monday, Manchester City are already preparing an audio visual footages to beused to unveil Lionel Messi in the coming weeks, if not days.

The 33-year-old – who has one year left on his contract at the Nou Camp has expressed his wish to leave the club he joined as a youth player 20 years ago.

His displeasure at the club got to its height when it was humiliated 8-2 by eventual Champions League winners, Bayern Munich.

Manchester City are believed to be in pole position to sign the Argentine captain and have a reunion with his former coach, Pep Guardiola.

And now Italian journalist Tancredi Palmeri has claimed that Manchester City are ready to pay Messi £450million over five years.

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He even suggested that the club would pay him a £225m bonus after three years in England, where he would then join sister club New York City.

Palmeri didn’t state how much City would pay Barca in order to secure his services.

He tweeted: “Boom. Manchester City would pay Messi €500m (£446m) net for 5 years!

“The salary would be €50m (£44.6m) per season, but after 3 years at the City there would be a €250m (£223m) bonus moving the last two years to New York City!”

Palmeri also told his 203,000 followers that Messi’s father Jorge will meet with Barca chief Josep Maria Bartomeu this week to discuss his future.

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He said: “Barcelona president Bartomeu and Messi’s father to meet on Wednesday.”

Messi had been hoping to leave the club on a free transfer this summer due to a clause in his contract, but LaLiga have dismissed his claim, keeping his £630m release clause intact.

Spanish media have stated that City are lining up an £89.5m bid for Messi, while also offering Barca Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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